423 East 12th Street
East Village | built 1910
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1892
A carpenter kills his wife in the rear house at 423 East 12th Street
In 1892, carpenter Philip Cunningham kills his wife, Elizabeth, in their second-floor apartment in the rear tenement at 423 East 12th Street, after a drunken fight. Neighbors hear the commotion but do not investigate, and he is later found in a bar and arrested. Ephemeral New York notes he may have been related to Hugh Cunningham, who built the front house, but that is unclear.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- 423 East 12th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- Discovering two of the hidden backhouses secluded inside an East Village tenement blockEphemeral New York
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